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MATERIAL natural stone in residential increasingly popular. Apparently, the trend “back to nature” is still a favorite of architects. Bored with routine and modernity is one reason.

“Nature is the best teacher. Guidance towards better quality of life feasible. He is also wonderful, making the environment more beautiful and soothing,” she said Evelyn Kit, one of his fans in a residential feel of nature.

Yes, a shop owner natural stone “Nature Decoration” in the region Puri Indah, West Jakarta, was so loved nature. Houses, as well as his store, natural shades. Leafy parks combined rocks on the wall, wrapped around a wooden shades. Splashing water also complement the scent of freedom in one corner of his house.

“Since my youth I was busy with the routine as a career woman. I get bored, want to enjoy a life free like being at the top of the hill,” said Evelyn. According to him, natural stone becomes the easiest way to bring atmosphere in addition to buy various kinds of beautiful plants.

Evelyn also explained that given the aura of natural stone could remove the weariness of a routine. “Sounded cool, until all the natural stone can be customized with any home style, whether minimalist modern and classic house,” he said.

Besides giving an impression of nature, natural stone also foster a dynamic impression. In the Mediterranean-style home, natural stone is usually more dominant presence on the exterior. Floors, walls, stairs, and parks are usually covered with natural stones.

“The colors are very distinctive and rich texture of natural stone make sense. Natural stone can give other shades. Not only psychologically, as well as visually to its owner,” said Januarizkhan, natural stone store owner “Combination Wall” in the number Kalimalang, East Jakarta.

According Januarizkhan, combining several types of natural stone can produce a work of art. For example, using a combination of stone walls Palimanan, Yogya stone, and stone temples. On the interior, natural stone can be present in the dining room or family room. Usually presented to sweeten natural stone in the house garden section. Or materials such as dry bathroom.

“These stones have a different specificity. Depending on the style and color,” said the entrepreneur who pursue the natural stone business since the 1960′s. Natural stone ornaments can be added with water was flowing. If it were so, the atmosphere will be like a flowing river.

Natural stones are now also increasingly diverse. From the explanation of Evelyn in the know that the colors of natural stone is also wonderful for home decorating. So far we only know the brown natural stone, natural colors that are similar to ground color.

Colorful natural stones began to red, white, yellow, green to be able to distinguish the characteristics of a house style. “If the yellow limestone can be used for Mediterranean-style house. For minimalist house can wear white or gray, white or green. So chill remains minimalist but the impression can be,” said Evelyn.

The diversity of natural stone that is now being used as a complement decor Dwi Noviantoro recognized architects. He mentions natural stone which is influenced more and more variants rocks that increasingly come from abroad.

“Actually there is no particular trend in natural stone selection process. We must be concerned is how to combine them with the basic design and harmony in the combination,” he explained.

Its name from natural ingredients, so to put it too must take special steps. In order to appear beautiful natural stone, note the pattern of installation, and finishing of natural stone, the process of installation, and maintenance.

Installation of natural stone patterns were very diverse. However, not all natural stone can be installed with the same pattern. This is due to the physical properties and texture of natural stone vary. Starting with various kinds of finishing up an exotic mosaic of natural stone.

Finishing of natural stone to be installed is also very diverse. Start is made with the lathe, there are ditapah, carving, until there is a cut with cutting machine. “The main thing that must be considered in applying the natural stone is maintenance. Therefore, it is often vulnerable to mildew, so there should be a coating (coating),” said Dwi.

However, the coating should not be made redundant and this depends on the owners tastes. Not a few people who choose not to get a coating of natural stone for more natural shades.

Rooftop is an important component of occupancy. Not only function as protectors of houses, but also reflect the style that brought the house.

So many types of roof truss that you can use to influence the style of the house because the roof of the house. Suppose your house the traditional style, then you can use a clay tile roof. If your occupancy minimalist style, use of concrete roof.

Some problems are common in residential homes due to leaky gutters ceiling collapsed, so the overflow of rain water can not be accommodated in the house. There are also problems that resulted in water leaking roof seeped into the walls, so the walls become moist, dirty or other effects that makes your home is damaged and no longer safe to use.

Then, how do we overcome the impact of natural events? We should pay more attention to making the roof. Do not let the roof of the house is only used as an umbrella, but it does not function as a whole. A good roof is capable of protecting the house from the sun, from a height of rainfall, or for any other weather changes.

We can also use exterior paint. At least the roof of a house can be beneficial in the long term. In addition, it is also an effort to reduce waste impact on the earth.

In addition to the use of exterior paint, we can also use a good set of roof. At least the roof of the house has a series of major effect on resistance of the roof of your house. Use the right frame of the roof had become one of the guidelines to make the house safer and more comfortable.

A good roof is not just good or exciting to the eye, but also serve to protect the house and its occupants to feel comfortable and safe.

Kind of a good roof for occupancy, according to architect Joni Saputra, is a mild steel. Compared to wood and concrete, steel roof has a long durability. In addition, the cost for the project house cheaper than wood. Although cheaper, steel is not losing quality with wood. For instance, says Joni, residential-housing is now using this type of roof because it is lighter than the steel structure of wood.

Implementation of the roof is generally associated with residential style. This is described by the architect Rahadi Rosi. Type of roof tiles that match the style is minimalist houses flat roof because minimalist style tends to simple, so that the curved roof tiles tend to be avoided by the concept of minimalist houses.

For modern-style house, using almost the same roof with a minimalist, which is a flat roof. Modern design that we know are more likely to utilize the materials of glass and metal.

“Although inclined barium glass, yet it does not mean you have to use glass tiles completely, but you can apply it on the roof of the garage,” says Rosi.

“You can use 50 percent fiber glass and the rest of the closed roof at the garage,” he added.

So it is with contemporary residential style. Because of its almost identical with the modern style, then it is no less precarious with the use of modern style. However, there are elements not mix ideally using concrete roof tiles.

The residential style tends to emphasize the elements of classical waves with lots of detail. So precarious is suitable for use is crucial waves.

What is different is the country style residences. This house is difficult to implement because the roof of lightweight steel design will find that wood is the material most suited for the clay roof tiles.

“In principle, the application of tiles to put forward to the owner of the house because it tastes tend to be flexible exterior,” said Rosi.

YOU would never see a transparent house because almost all the walls were made of glass. However, make no mistake, such a house could not be called a glass house.

What is meant glass house is the house that was made of glass, but not to be used as a dwelling house. Glass houses are usually used as a place to crop cultivation. While a house with glass architecture glass is usually used as basic materials almost as big as 70-80 percent.

In the past, places that have limited the construction of buildings made of glass in buildings and skyscrapers alone. However, the trend seems to use the glass had been “dropped” into the world of residential property. Today, glass has become the core structure and design elements for residential lots.

The use of glass, in terms of lighting, is very useful because it helps bring light to direct sunlight into the house, certainly during the daytime. According to the architect of Marina L, the glass can make a house look more spacious than the original.

“Home stay that use glass in most of the building to bring natural flow from the outside in and vice versa thus providing peace and quiet nuances,” he said.

The use of glass as building materials are less expensive than if you use concrete as the main wall of the house. “Glass can be recycled. So besides cheap, also very friendly environment,” said Marina.

The increased use of glass as a material basis-line home construction along with increased production and glass technology itself. At first people hesitated to use glass as a base for construction of houses as it seemed prone to rupture. However, with increasing technological sophistication, the glass in modern times such as these can be made more powerful, more secure, and efficient energy.

“Once the glass in the windows only to the extent of housing as a place and out of air and light. Now its use has been enabled as well as exterior interior architectural elements,” said Marina.

Glass as the exterior architectural elements, among others, applied to the facades of buildings, roofs, skywalks, entrances, revolving door, canopy, winter garden and glass house crop cultivation. All that allows sunlight to enter freely. Exterior appearance became more unique look. While for the interior, the glass used on stairs, hall walking, and the wall.

“There lho house all glass walls. But there are also combined with concrete walls,” said Marina.

The use of glass as a base for many of the buildings should compromise with the other aspects. Suppose condition for coolness and heat. Often happens in a greenhouse architecture is reversed effects, such as heat in winter and cool in summer.

Luckily there been progress in glass-making industry that also offer benefits to us. One example is the spectrum of glass with selective quality of the stream of light into the home without endangering or result in the loss of these residents as well as other home contents.

Well, whether you are now getting interested own a house with glass architecture? Your home might be satusatunya home with such a model that showed the most unique among the other houses in your neighborhood.

NEW YORK – A new material made from cooking oil for cooking can alter the roof of your house is like a chameleon. Mixture of cooking oil is changing the roof of the house into the optical properties, reflecting the time blazing sun and absorb sunlight during the cold weather.

In other words, the roof will serve as a heating and air conditioning system in your home. The idea of using building materials and a special roof to reduce household energy costs actually not something new.

Previously, environmentally friendly roof is made only for one season. For example, the roof of the ‘cooling’ which reflected the sunlight, helps cool the house dikala summer. But as a result, when winter arrived, the roof can not be enabled.

Told LiveScience, Tuesday (23/3/2010), a new roof that created a technology company United Environment and Energy can function in two different seasons and weather. The roof is made of a polymer-based cooking oil is related in the long chain molecules and hardens into a plastic material.

“The key is the secret ingredient in the roof of a polymer that changes the optical properties. This material is not changing the color of the roof, but changing the temperature,” said United’s vice president of Environment and Energy Ben Wen.

Wen said, when compared with conventional roof, the roof is made from bio can reduce the cost of cooling and heating system room.

“The roof like this will save you the cost of fuel and electric energy and reduce emissions of volatile organic materials. In addition, these roofs also reduce limbahy millions of gallons of oil used to cook who used to cook chicken nuggets and fries,” he said.

ROAD pathway is one component of a house which has a double function. Besides beautify the yard, a path also protects existing plants in the yard.

Original, a path was made so that pedestrians can walk comfortably without having to set foot into the ground or grass which can sometimes be very slippery and dirty. Therefore, a path alias is usually created as a stepping stone towards the signpost for pedestrians, it also protects the plant from the human foot pedal.

The trail is very pretty when placed in the yard or garden in your home, especially if the forms, pictures, and unique color. According to the landscape architect Diana Ambadar, a path is able to create harmony and peace for the nuances of the beholder. “In addition, a path also very useful because it can protect the yard in the wet and muddy conditions due to rain, for example. A garden path and keep your yard nice views, “said Diana.

Placing an additional stepping stone as an accent in the garden is a smart way. However, what should you prepare if you want your garden has a lovely trail? Make sure you have shadows that flow path will you adopt in the path. The regulation is very important because the trail should connect one area to another area. So not only as decoration. Suppose you have a fish pond. You can apply the path from the porch into the fish pond.

After that, specify size desired diameter path. “Ideally to step on, its size is approximately 18 inches,” says Diana. In addition, a path also has a variety of forms. There was a box-shaped, circular, semicircular, or oval. However, a general there in the yard of the house is shaped circle.

The trail has a variety of types. There is made of stone or cement, some made of wood and there are also made of ceramic coated with cement. Well, like what you want to select? Wood is good and beautiful. Garden and yard of the house will be impressed with the natural path of this type. Unfortunately, during the rainy season arrives, the path of this type are not resistant to excessive rain. Wood exposed to excessive water will be overgrown with moss. In addition, the wood will soften after a long time and destroyed if trampled on, because it is rotting due to excessive moisture.

Want to ceramic materials? May. Park by the trail of this type would indeed look elegant and luxurious. Especially if the ceramic has a beautiful color and complexion. However, the path of this type also has a drawback, which is once again in the rainy season, this path will feel slippery shower of rain hit. You do not want it to slip while walking on that path?

The path most “secure” is a cement-based. Besides not slippery when rain, no moss, as well as durable. However, be careful workmanship. Mixing cement is not an easy matter, because if the wrong path will crack if exposed to excessive heat.

How long is the road that you want to apply on the trail? Because by measuring the length of the road, you’ll know how much fruit a path that will be installed. The distance between the step path and another one not too far or too close together. Try your path before reinstalling. That way, the step-step distance footpath has the right step for you to walk.